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A 28-year-old Bangladeshi man named Abul Bajandar, also known as the "Tree Man," who suffers from an extremely rare genetic disease, is facing more surgery after a relapse in his condition. Abul has been living with a curious dermatological phenomenon for almost 30 years: the uncontrollable growth of large, bark-like…
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For the past couple of days, social media has been awash with opinions over an incident involving a Native American war hero and a large group of MAGA hat-wearing teenage boys. Nathan Phillips, an Omaha Tribe elder, was participating in the Indigenous Peoples March on Sunday when he found himself…
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Over this weekend, a video clip showing a group of teenage boys in MAGA hats surrounding a Native American elder went viral. The boys, who were from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky, had been in Washington DC in order to participate in the March for Life, but encountered Nathan Phillips,…
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Last year, the internet's collective imagination was captured after a CCTV video emerged showing someone who looked startlingly like Ross from 'Friends' making his way out of a store in Blackpool with a crate of beer. The video was viewed many thousands of times on Twitter, and naturally a widespread…
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Over the past few weeks, news of R Kelly's alleged abuse has dominated the media. Rumours of the matter had been circulating since the 1990s, but it was only after a recent documentary, Surviving R Kelly, that the issue seemed to be taken seriously by those in the music industry…
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Rescuers are desperately drilling to find a two-year-old boy who has been trapped in a deep well for a week. Julen Roselló fell down the 250ft borehole while out walking with his parents in a mountainous area near the village of Totalan, northeast of Malaga, southern Spain. The 25cm-wide waterhole is…
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A 72-year-old grandmother has claimed to found love with a 19-year-old that she met at her son's funeral. Almeda and Gary Hardwick wed back in 2016 - two weeks after they first met. The pair became acquainted at the funeral of Almeda's son, Robert, who died aged 45 after suffering…
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Per Variety, Sony Music has decided to dissolve its working relationship with R. Kelly. According to a source, no public announcement of the decision is planned for the immediate future, but Kelly was removed from the RCA Records website - which lists the label's signed artists - around 10am on…
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Sue East was only 58 when she passed away in December, after a battle with cancer. The day she died, she wrote a letter to her pupils, in which she explained that she was "going to die soon," thanking them for their "joy and friendship". On Thursday this week, hundreds…
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Michael Cohen was Donald Trump's trusted confidante for years, but now he's turned into his worst enemy. Reportedly the former attorney turned convicted felon has flipped on his former boss, and is spilling all of the glorious tea. Special counsel Robert Mueller's FBI investigation has been remarkably tight-lipped, but this…
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A transgender woman from Australia has been jailed for nine years for attempted murder after she walked into a 7-Eleven and began randomly attacking two terrified shoppers with a fire axe. In the early hours of January 7 of 2017, 25-year-old Evie Amati used a two-kilogram axe to batter Ben Rimmer in the…
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Getting married to someone is always going to be a bit of a daunting prospect; not the least of which because of the bride's father-in-law. If you're a dad then you'll understand how important it is to be protective of your girl, and how it can sometimes be hard to…
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If you thought the story of drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman would be a dramatic one, you're still probably underestimating just how strange it gets. He's escaped from prison with elaborate schemes more than once, but now he's on trial for various drug conspiracy charges, and the court proceedings are…
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Morgan Freeman was reportedly accused of being responsible for his step-granddaughter's death at the sentencing of the man who killed her. E'Dena Hines' boyfriend Lamar Davenport was sentenced to 20 years in prison with an additional five years of post-release supervision on Thursday, after stabbing her 25 times on a New…
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Earlier this week, you may have heard about the outrage that occurred in response to Gillette's commercial about toxic masculinity. Razor users flipped out, flushed their blades, and proclaimed that they wanted nothing more to do with the company (which sort of proved their point, in a way). But if…
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All over social media, everyone seems to be taking part in the ten-year challenge, and it's fair to say that some of the before/after pictures have been pretty interesting. In case you've been living under a rock for the past few weeks, and have never heard of it before, the…
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Forget Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly - the hottest beef in America is Donald Trump versus Nancy Pelosi. (Unfortunately, there are no diss tracks...yet.) As you could probably tell from the salty looks of unpaid TSA agents at the airport, we are currently in day 27 of a partial government…
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If there's one thing you never want to do, it's mock a comedian. Seriously, these are people who are professionally quick-witted and smart, ready with a comeback or cool retort for every occasion, and who routinely eat hecklers for breakfast. Most of them could probably give you a stern dressing-down…
